30 posts tagged ‘marvel studios’
All the Big Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Films We're Excited for in 2024
Gizmodo,
In a modern movie landscape dominated by mega franchises, 2024 is looking mighty odd indeed. Yes, we’ve got films coming from DC, Marvel, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and a few others, but almost all of them are slightly off-brand. The Transformers and Lord of the Rings movies are animated. The biggest Marvel and… Read more...
The Most Unhinged Monopoly Variations You Can Buy Right Now
Why play classic Monopoly, with its boring old Boardwalk and all those railroads, when you can play a snazzy special edition branded to your favorite pop culture property? The options for Monopoly variations are startlingly robust. Here are 10 we found—all currently available online—that stood out for being… Read more...
Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin is now the dark beating heart of Marvel’s TV shows
AV Club,
Marvel Studios released Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld’s Hawkeye in November 2021 as a little holiday treat for superhero fans, but the real joy was the way the show gradually teased the return of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk—with D’Onofrio reprising his role from Netflix’s Daredevil show, where he was one of… Read more...
7 Things We Liked, and 3 We Didn't, About Marvel's Echo
For the first time in its history, Marvel Studios went full binge with its latest streaming series, Echo. All five episodes of the show dropped simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu earlier this week, so by now, hopefully, you’ve had a chance to watch it. Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. explains how making Iron Man was a little bit indie
A little over four years ago (!), Martin Scorsese made a now-infamous pronouncement: Marvel movies are “not cinema.” In fact, they’re more like theme parks, in the Killers Of The Flower Moon director’s eye. That first shot kicked off a war as virulent as the one the Avengers had to fight against Thanos himself. It’s… Read more...
All of io9's Best of 2023 Posts, In One Handy Place
A new year is upon us, but don’t say goodbye to the old one just yet! For the past 3 weeks io9 has been delivering our Year in Review for all things 2023—our favorite films and shows, cool toys, people we lost, the trends that defined a year of sci-fi, fantasy, and genre pop culture, and so much more. Why not take a… Read more...
Marvel Teases More What If...? Adventures to Come
Today marks the season two finale for Marvel’s What If...?. I haven’t watched it yet, but by several accounts, it sounds like this has been a pretty solid season with a standout episode that focuses on the Mohawk woman Kahhori. Ahead of this season’s premiere, Marvel Studios revealed a third season was in the works,… Read more...
The end of What If…?'s second season briefly acknowledges the current state of Marvel’s multiverse
Marvel Studios has picked up a somewhat annoying habit lately of ignoring things established in its larger universe, rendering the larger universe irrelevant and spoiling what was once the big selling point of these movies and TV shows. But, despite its supposed dependence on standalone stories, season two of… Read more...